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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Today I've got some valentine inspiration. Yes, I made a valentine's card!

I love to make them but mostly I don't sent them to anyone, maybe it's time for a change... 😉

I choose to work with this cutie by C.C. Designs and she's called "Tiny Heart". I think she's so adorable! I always colour the skin first and after that I do the hair.

Here you can see a picture when I did that and here I mapped out where the shadows are going to be. I always do that with a light colour first, and if I'm happy with that, I do the same with the darkest colour. I guess it's just how you like to work.

Here are the Copic colours I've used:

skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, E93

hair: E59, E25, E23, E41

turqoise: BG18, BG13, BG11, BG10

pink: RV69, RV17, RV55, RV52

white: C5, C3, C1

red: R59, R46, R24

After I coloured this little girl, I did the background with some Distress Inks, drawed some hearts with a white gelpen and I stamped some hearts with a fushia ink to give it some more life.

Friday, January 27, 2017

This is my first post at Copic Marker Europe and I am making a card that lights up.

Most of my cards are gifted to my kids’ friends, so I end up designing
towards children. This one, though, I may keep it to myself 😁

To build the circuit I mapped the card on an extra piece
of cardstock exactly the same size as the final card (stamps placed exactly on
the same spots to ensure the wand led would be exactly beneath the star).I used it as a base for my card and assembled
the led circuit using Chibitronics leds and copper tape. This is how the
circuit looks like when finished:

I then placed a frame around it using strips of 2 sheets of
foam that I had glued together with double sided tape. This frame will help me
position the card front exactly on top of its base.

Then, I coloured the card itself. I started with the skin using E000/00/11/21
and E93 for blush.

I coloured the tutu dress with BG000/01/45/07.Because the drawing is so tiny, I coloured
dark to light, but first I mapped the shadows on the pleats using the lightest
marker.

And after a few strokes the tutu dress was coloured:

When it was time to colour the leggings, I noticed that I had mistakenly coloured
her right one. Lucky for me, Copics are very forgiving when it comes to
light colours. A few light strokes of Colourless Blender and the legging was
ready to go RVs. I used RV10/11/13:

I coloured her en pointe shoes with the same BGs combo I used on the tutu
dress.

Then, couloured her hair with YR31/24 and E35.

To finish, I used RV0000/000/00 on her wings and Y11/15 on her wand's star.

I lined her wand flourishes with atyou spika pens and
finished the image.

When I glued the card to the the base I had assembled before,
I was in for bad surprise: the glue showed through the card and I had a dirty spot. So,
as any crafter would do, I creatively hid these malfunctioning parts: I die cut
pink stars, coloured them with clear wink of Stella for some shimmer, and placed them
around the card frame. I needed a big star to mark the “Press here” spot, so I chose one with a tail to hid the dirty mark.

Monday, January 23, 2017

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share some love, because February is just around the corner, so Valentine's Day coming :)

The image I used is one of the new Valentine images being released this week at Make it Crafty. I coloured my image first, using purple and pink tones to make a girly card. I coloured the skin first, then the hair to avoid dragging dark colour onto the skin. For her outfit I did the same, the pale "apron" first, then the purple dress. I finished by the balloons.

Skin: E000, 01, 11, 13, R20

Hair: 100, BV04, W7, 9

Eyes: B00

Dress: C00, 1, 2, V000, 01, 09, 15, 17

Balloons: RV000, 00, 02, V12, 15, 17

Ground: C2

(sorry, I forgot the skin tones on the photo! - see list above)

I then added several Make it Crafty chipboard to my card - the word LOVE (in 1.75 inches size), 3 letters from the 5mm Alphabet Cap Set and a little heart from the Mini Hearts Chipboard Tinklings. I coloured them with my black Copic marker and the pink is acrylic paint.

And to finish off my card, I used some pink heart DP by Toga to match the theme of my card.

Friday, January 20, 2017

hope you all had a wonderful holiday and you've started 2017 healthy and colourful.

My post for today is all about aquaholics. I came across this word on the internet and I really liked it, it sounds so funny and it suits the image I used for today's project very well.

My projects is an art journal page. I used one of my Gelli-plate backgrounds from my stash. The background is made with acrylic paints and art foamies.

The image is by Line Artsy by a wonderful artist called Gloria.

I have coloured this pretty mermaid and fish with Copic Markers and coloured pencils.

I started colouring with the Copic Markers. Coloured pencils are usually oil or waxed based. If you use your coloured pencils first you might end up with clogged Copic nibs. So to avoid any clogging use your Copic Markers first.

I started with adding green shadows using the BG70. Then I build up the skin using the E50, 00 and 000. The mermaids hair I've coloured with BG07,70,72,75 and 78. Start with using your darkest colour first and use this on the shadow parts of her hair. After I used all my colours from dark to light I go back to the darkest colour. With all the blending the darkest colour might have faded a little, so you need to add a little of the darkest colour again to create more depth. In the end I thought the hair looked dull, so I added some YG13 to get it a bit more sparkly.

For the fish I used BG02, 05, 09, 11, YG03, 11, 17 and Y17.

For the orange parts of the fish, the veil and the mermaid's lips I used the YR01, 02, 14,15,16 and 18.

When I finished my Copic colouring I got out my coloured pencils and added some more depth to the colouring.

I have found this funny word on the internet and wrote it down on my page using a Copic Multiliner. I coloured the letters with Copic Markers (YG13) and some coloured pencils.

I tell you a little ... I have decided to work with greys because I have an eye problem, my perception of colour is a bit different these days.

So I have chosen this beautiful drawing for colouring, it has lots of grey tones, but it also uses blue, brown and pink. I do not know if you can really see it, because they are colours tinted with grey, forming a set where nothing stands out too much.

One of my personal challenges of this new year is to make one bookmark per week, an easy way to use many of the drawings that we colour for the pleasure of colouring. I hope you like my idea, and encourage yourselves to do the same.